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WORLD IN GENERAL 

THIS VOLUME IS 

AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED 

BY THE 

SPIRIT OF W. T. STEAD 



TCectures 



I Allotment of Man in the Spirit World 13 

II Vindication of Man 15 

III Stages of Development in First Sphere 18 

IV Continuity of Man 22 

V Science of Psychology 25 

VI Science of Astrology 28 

VII Evolution 32 

VIII PSYCHOLIZATION OF MAN 35 

IX Spirit Molecular Magnetism 37 

X Spirit Levitation 40 

XI Central Sun of All Sun's Spiritual 

Levitation 43 

XII Conclusion or Review 47 



"preface 



In presenting this volume to the public, I will not 
burden the reader with many words in the preface — 
but will give a brief explanation how these lectures 
were obtained. 

In the first place my friend R. A. Boner and I went 
to have a seance with W. B. Murphy, the medium, 16 
Barnet Street, Dayton, Ohio. After the control, 
John Murphy, a brother of the medium, opened the 
seance, and a few friends communicated, the control 
announced that we will hear from a spirit way up in 
intelligence. And shortly W. T. Stead took the trum- 
pet and gave us his first message through this medium 
— by trumpet. He stated, that he wanted to give a 
number of lectures to the world, and he told me that 
he wanted me, Dr. S. Toman, to record them and have 
them printed and circulated all over the world. I 
asked him how I may know that the intelligence talk- 



8 Preface 

ing is really the spirit of W. T. Stead, of London, 
England. He said, "The Control introduced him as 
W. T. Stead just the same as if you would have come 
to London and some one there would have introduced 
me to you. You would not want me to prove my 
identity. I am no other than the Spirit of W. T. 
Stead and I find the conditions favorable to communi- 
cate to the people of the Earth plane — and I would 
like to have you record them and send them broadcast 
to the world in general. 

W. B. Murphy developed trumpet talk in about four 
years. He also got the peculiar method of what he 
called slate writing also, in the light. 

He sat near a stand and held the slate in his left 
arm and pencil in the right hand and used the whole 
arm movement all the time, running the pencil in cir- 
cles, curves, sweeps, etc. I could not detect one letter 
or word, but he could see the words flashed upon the 
slate and would read them aloud, and I recorded them 
as he uttered them. I asked W. T. Stead how he did 
the writing and he said that the control hypnotizes 
the medium and then he is brought into a negative 
condition, and by wireless mental electro molecular 
induction the words are flashed upon the slate visible 
to the medium. Words come forth similar to the 
words upon a graphaphone. The spirit intelligence, 
purporting to be the spirit of W. T. Stead, after that, 
gave a lecture every Wednesday, and I recorded them 



Preface 9 

as faithfully as possible. These lectures, you will see, 
were all given in the light in the presence of the 
named witnesses in the latter part of the book, and 
each and every lecture was read in the presence of the 
witnesses and approved by W. T. Stead in the seance 
room. He used that room for proof reading. 

THE MEDIUM 

W. B. Murphy, the medium, is a common house 
painter — is a man of common education, having never 
advanced farther than the Fifth Grade in the common 
school. For a man of such primary education, and 
no reader, to deliver these lectures himself would 
certainly be nothing less than a miracle. The medium 
stated that he could only read the words as they came 
fresh at the end of the pencil. 

The Intelligence communicating is a very positive 
character, when he talked, it was apparently with 
authority — loud and distinct. 

I had received eleven lectures up to the time of the 
famous flood in Dayton, Ohio, and did not get the 
twelfth lecture until June 4, 1913. I lacked one lecture 
to complete the series. 

A Verification 

The Spiritualists of Dayton had a mass meeting, and 
a strange medium from Hamilton, Ohio, told me that 
W. T. Stead said I should keep on and the book would 



10 Preface 

be finished I was a perfect stranger to the medium, 
who gave me the test in the presence of 50 or 60 
witnesses. 

Yours truly, 

SAMUEL TOMAN, 
1839 W. Third St., Dayton, Ohio. 



Appeal to tl)e Worl6 

INTRODUCTION 



To Dr. S. Toman, of Dayton, Ohio, U. S. A. 

I, W. T. Stead, wish to express to you tonight, 
through the medium W. B. Murphy and his Guide, my 
heartfelt thanks to all mankind on the Earth Plane. 
I, W. T. Stead, do hereby acknowledge the great truth 
of Spiritualism — founded on the grandest truths of 
progress of all things that were and are in existence. 

It was the wonderful truths delivered by the Amer- 
ican seer Andrew Jackson Davis, that started me in 
my investigations of psychical phenomena and the 
grand truth of Spiritualism. My son, also having 
passed over to the spirit plane of life, brought me in- 
disputable facts relative to spirit return. And I, W. T. 
Stead, give to you the right to record my series of 
lectures, and publish them to the world in general. 
(If at the end of this series of lectures you see mis- 



12 Introduction 

takes or typographical errors, you will please correct 
them and charge them to my account.) 

I wish to thank all the people who manifested an 
interest in me, and all the editors who espoused my 
cause. They all receive my heartfelt thanks, for rec- 
ognizing me as an intelligent man and had the courage 
to expound what I thought to be the truth regarding 
Spirit return. 

I studied about all the branches that were taught in 
the colleges, and the reading of Thomas Payne stimu- 
lated my reasoning facilities. In delivering these 
series of lectures, I will endeavor to be as explicit and 
concise as possible. This is only a preliminary to one 
of the grandest lectures ever given to mankind on the 
Earth Plane. 

Yours truly, 

W. T. STEAD. 



Cecture 5t<x t 



Allotment of Man in the Spirit World 



The first of a series of lectures that will be given 
will comprise the "Allotment of Man" after he passes 
through the Earth Plane to the "Summer Land." 

The coming forth from the material to the spiritual 
is a passing over and is of great importance, in which 
I will make plain as possible the astrological, phenom- 
enal, and what scientific research has achieved. It is 
the philosophy of Andrew Jackson Davis, in which the 
spiritual phrenology has been unfolded. 

When the material life is eliminated from the ma- 
terial body, all men seem to think the end is there — 
and that worse is waiting for that one soul, but no 
vein of any description indicate than an angel or a 
devil can be made out of the departure from the ma- 
terial to the spiritual. 

The atoms of which the spiritual is composed, do 
go to the Beautiful Summer Land, expressed by An- 
drew Jackson Davis, and which no man ever made it 
more specific than he has done. He should be lauded 
to the skies by the inhabitants of the Earth Plane for 



14 Lectures by the Spirit of W. T. Stead 

all that which he has written. It was a preconception 
to him of the great truth, which I can now verify. 

I cast all my energies and ambitions to unfathom 
the great future of the principles of psychical phe- 
nomena. 

I, W. T. Stead, do affirm and declare that I will 
henceforth give these lectures weekly instead of 
monthly, as per previous agreement, until one dozen 
are given for humanity's sake. After such periods 
have elapsed and the periodicals have had a chance to 
comment on these articles, etc., I will meet again at 
stated times and cause them to turn tail and meet me 
at fair combat. 

The Summer Land is a grand sphere of rejoicing. 
The loved ones on the Earth Plane weep over the de- 
serted body. If they could only see the rejoicing in 
the Beyond, when a lovely one from earth meets loved 
ones over there, they would instead of weeping, laugh 
for joy. It is a land of comfort and contentment, 
when those loved ones commingle. It is inexpressible 
joy at their banquets. No death, no sorrow, no pain. 
The Earth's inhabitants have no conception of the 
joys in the Upper Spheres. 

May the Good God enlighten the denizens of the 
Earth Plane, so as to perceive the glories of the here- 
after as those who have gone over. May the God of 
fraternal fellowship be with you all. 

Good night, 

W. T. STEAD. 



TLecture 5to, 2 



VINDICATION OF MAN 

Dr. S. Toman. 

Dear Sir — This is the second of the series, to be 
known as the "Vindication of Man," after passing over 
from the material Earth Plane to the Spiritual. 

I want to vindicate him from all thoughts of Hell 
Fire, and all the false doctrines promulgated from time 
immemorial. 

Here w r e wish to vindicate mankind. Mankind, ac- 
cording to Biblical statutes, has always been imposed 
upon in an unmerciful manner. In the first place, our 
forefathers were driven out of the Garden of Eden, 
of which, was said, of disobedience because they 
tasted of the tree of knowledge. Even according to 
the Biblical statement — we will take the Bible state- 
ment to verify the truth of this assertion — "He tasted 
of the tree of knouledge." 

What foolishness to man to preach to man. But it 
was given to that ignorant class of people — ignorant 



16 Lectures of the Spirit of W. T. Stead 

class today, as in the past. As I said before, this is 
for the vindication of mankind. There never was a 
soul lost in all time. 

Man is the grand ultimate of all the evolutionary 
forces. His evolution takes notice of the present, not 
away back to the rear as the churches teach. When 
man, as I said before, passes to the Spirit world, he 
is the same man in every sense of the word; man, 
with intellect and affections. The vein tends to 
eternal progression and unfoldment of all his being. 
And we endeavor to instill into the veins of all races 
so they can appreciate all the principles progressing on 
the Spiritual side of life. The great doctors of divinity 
on the Earth Plane do not believe one iota of what 
they say. They often wonder why so many supposed 
intelligent persons will sit and listen to them preach- 
ing a lot of bosh. Is it any wonder that I, as an 
intelligent man on the Earth Plane do repudiate such 
false doctrines against immortal man, the highest 
form of evolution, and vindicate him that he is not 
born totally depraved, and worthy of Gehennal dam- 
nation. 

Let me go back a few years and I will show you 
that woman has done more for the Spiritual cause than 
man. The Fox sisters were given the messages and 
they gave them to the whole world ; without fear they 
gave them to all. Then man followed suit. Then they 
both began to work in harmony. 



Vindication of Man 17 

There are noble characters today, who will stand 
up for the right, as Maggie Waite has stood for the 
right in Chicago. She has vindicated man, and all the 
mediums vindicate him. There are some on the 
Spiritual side not honorable, the same as on the Earth 
Plane. If the Spiritual truth be spread over the uni- 
verse, oh how much better for all. Andrew Jackson 
Davis has spread the truth vindicating mankind. 
Thomas Payne vindicated man, Robert G. Ingersoll 
vindicated man; and I, W. T. Stead, from the Spirit 
side of life do also vindicate man. And I trust that 
we will all bear witness that these truths have been 
given to Dr. S. Toman, of Dayton, Ohio, through W. B. 
Murphy, medium. 

Yours truly, 

W. T. STEAD. 



Hectare 3to* 3 



Stages of Development in First Sphere 



Dr. S. Toman. 

Dear Sir — I, W. T. Stead, do hereby start the third 
series of the lecture, which will be entitled "The Stages 
of the First Sphere/' of those who have passed from 
the material side of life to the Spiritual side; as I 
have said in lecture number one, The Allotment of 
Man in the Spirit World. 

The Spirit is always welcome to these shores. They 
are all welcome as can be, they are treated with the 
utmost kindness and charity, and are examined by 
experts in wisdom, to see what place is best for their 
welfare and unfoldment. They enroll each in his or 
her proper sphere of progression, where one is to a 
certain extent progressed. He or she is placed in a 
class suitable to the next line of progression. As there 
are various classes on the Earth Plane, so it is in the 
Spiritual Plane. If a Spirit passing from the Earth 
Plane to the Spiritual Plane has progressed to any 
extent, he gets along better than one who has been 
fed upon error. 

I will now treat of the First Sphere. There are 
fourteen different classes or stages in the First Sphere. 



Stages of Development in First Sphere 19 

In as few words as possible, they are all classed ac- 
cording to their Spiritual growth. All eligible can- 
didates are placed in such a class suitable to their 
further advancement, in love and truth. The criminal 
class are in certain stages according to their degree 
of inharmony below the First Stage of the First 
Sphere and must be instructed and evolved up to First 
Stage of the First Sphere through the a. b. c. or 
Kindergarten instruction until they are far enough 
advanced to occupy a place in the first common stage 
of the First Sphere, and then and not until then are 
they able to comprehend what is necessary for them 
to know, that they are on a level with common people. 

The number one class is designated as the class 
including all races, black, white, yellow and red. They 
all comprise the number one class. They all will pro- 
gress from number one to number two, and rejoice in 
their promotion the same as scholars advancing from 
one grade to another on the Earth Plane. They are 
satisfied in their respective stages of promotion, but 
rejoice when they come up the line to the second land- 
ing. Eternal progress is the prize of effort. It is not 
a lazy life, it is not without effort. Quite a large num- 
ber seem to wish to remain in their old accustomed 
channels, but they all will eventually aspire to higher 
spheres, from sphere to sphere. 

So it behooves us all to do the best we can on the 
Earth Plane. Advanced Spirits are doing all they can 



20 Lectures of the Spirit of W. T. Stead 

to go up higher and higher into more brilliant spheres, 
nad so on. After passing through the First Stage of 
the First Sphere, we find loved ones in the Second 
Stage lending a helping hand and cheering us up, tell- 
ing us to stick to it, and they try to help all aspiring 
souls up another notch, which gives both parties great 
joy, just the same as advancement on the Earth Plane 
causes rejoicing. Yet we have some who for many 
years do not try to advance. I have been through the 
Second and Third Stages of the First Sphere. Andrew 
Jackson Davis met me and showed me the wonderful 
beauties in the Second and Third Stages. (Dr. Toman, 
in making out these remarks, you will please rectify 
mistakes.) Andrew Jackson Davis escorted me in a 
gentle manner, as he had the permission to lead me up. 
The Third starts from the close of the Second, and 
the Fourth from the close of the Third, and so on. In 
the Fourth Stage the workers and mediums come to- 
gether with renewed strength to aid in the work of 
progression. In the Fifth Stage of the First Sphere, 
many Spirits linger long, apparently satisfied that 
that heaven is good enough for them — and many re- 
main here through ages of time. At the close of the 
Seventh Stage there you will find dear lovely ones to 
welcome you up to the First Stage of the Second 
Sphere. They hold out their loving helping hand to 
all those ready to step upon their lovely shore. This 
seems a short time to tell it, but cycles of time are 



Stages of Development in First Sphere 21 

passing while one passes through the First to the 
Second Sphere. 

Thomas Payne, Robert G. Ingersoll, and all great 
Spirits, who have passed on, have joy, contentment, 
and happiness. 

Good night, 

W. T. STEAD. 



TCecture 3to* 4 



Continuity of Man 



To Dr. S. Toman, through W. B. Murphy, Medium, 16 
Barnet Street, City of Dayton, Ohio, U. S. A. 

The fourth series of these lectures treats of the 
''Continuity of Man." After a review of the preceding 
lecture of the continuity of man, involving the evolu- 
tion of the most gigantic forces and aspirations 
brought together and focused in man, and which are 
destined to live on forever more, the Continuity of life 
per se is in every form manifested on the material 
plane. Life is eternal. The manifestations of life will 
live in the archives of eternal destiny. There are 
so-called anthros and semi-anthros, that will reflect 
like a mirror the unfoldment and aspirations of the 
future. There was a time on Earth when it was sup- 
posed that God made man by his omnipotent power 
and wisdom, a full-grown anthropomorphic creature, 
and that He Himself was also an anthropomorphic 
being. God is the great spiritual power of wisdom and 
love Who forms all manifestations, the Great Central 
Sun, the Focus of all Anthropology, and so far as we 



Continuity of Man 23 

are concerned, makes a concession of his wisdom to 
each and every man. (The guide and control do not 
understand anything about anthropology.) 

The various citadels that imprison our social age 
ere long will all be empty, and new conceptions far 
above the old will be openly given to man. 

The tradition of Moses and the children of Israel 
crossing the Red Sea and Moses stretching forth his 
magic wand and destroying the whole army, mirrors 
forth what we will achieve — a greater victory. What 
I say of that tradition, we have the gift to know that 
we will stretch the wand of intuition and intelligence 
and destroy the whole army of superstition and igno- 
rance. We have the gift of the conception of what is 
about to unfold to humanity. We have been taught 
about the white and black sheep. Peter is supposed 
to be the white sheep and Judas Iscariot the black one. 
Now Judas was no worse than Peter who denied 
Christ. He repented as well as Peter, and the great 
law of purification operates in one the same as in the 
other. 

Peter is not standing at the gate any more than 
that God is an anthropomoric God. You will please 
bear with me as it may seem a radical departure from 
what you have been reading and hearing propounded 
from all the pulpits for these thousands of years. 

Andrew Jackson Davis and I travelled together 
many millions of miles and examined many undevel- 
oped conditions. Hence we can both vouch for the 



24 Lectures of the Spirit of W. T. Stead 

truth of the above assertions. The God you worship 
is all right, but your say so does not make God. The 
real God is the divine within you. You live in God 
and God in you. The child will make up in its im- 
agination what you have taught it. The impression is 
left stamped upon its plastic brain, whether truth or 
error. It is simply ludicrous to think such evils still 
exist in this age of enlightenment. Those old things 
that were preached thousands of years ago. Man con- 
tinues to live by virtue of the inherent principles of 
the divinity — within; it is the grandest blessing we 
can have. The teachings of Andrew Jackson Davis, 
Thomas Payne, and Robert G. Ingersoll are true. The 
continuity of life is what all men are looking out to 
grasp. 

Yours truly, 

W. T. STEAD. 



TCecture 5to* 5 



Science of Psychology 



The fifth of the series of lecture will be entitled 
"The Science of Psychology." 

This is a subject that will not be very easily digested 
and assimulated into the constitution of those upon 
the Earth Plane. This is one of the greatest and most 
difficult to comprehend of any that has ever been 
given to man. There is no scientist on the Earth 
Plane that does not receive scientific truths from the 
Spirit side of life. There are scientific principles on the 
Spirit side of life. There are scientific principles on 
the Spirit side of life just the same as are on the Earth 
Plane. There are also grades of development in knowl- 
edge and wisdom the same. There are some who are 
continually delving into the secrets of the universe, 
while the many appear to be satisfied to only use 
the scientific discoveries of others. The scientists on 
the Spirit side of life must conform to the laws and 
principles just the same as scientists do on the Earth 
Plane. We must work to precision or get no results. 
Not to preclude any possibility of a doubt, we must 



26 Lectures of the Spirit of W. T. Stead 

strive in a scientific manner to promulgate to Earth's 
inhabitants the very same as all on the Earth Plane do. 
We are put to a more critical test than they are. 

The common orthodox world simply accept emo- 
tional manifestations and think they have something, 
but when we examine psychology, we must know the 
science of the various effects of the fine psychical 
forces, and when we do that, and call it science, the 
orthodox world are dumbfounded. The science of 
psychology simply means Spirit work in its various 
stages or phases of manifestations. The various man- 
ifestations recorded in history are not miraculous but 
only natural scientific principles are brought into ac- 
tion and Spirits have a perception of these principles. 
Hence Spirits, that have evolved up the line in wisdom 
have finally experimented with the various psychical 
principles, so as to be able to establish communication 
between the two spheres of existence — oh, what a 
grand achievement to do. The dead do now return and 
give messages to Earth's inhabitants. It is also a 
psychological fact that Spirits do communicate 
through different phases of mediumship. They must 
concentrate the forces to meet the requirements 
scientifically or they will get no results. 

The use of the trumphet requires a great amount of 
wisdom, so that the various forces may perfect all of 
the various languages, etc., similar to the telephone 
or phonograph on the Earth Plane — very simple to 



Science of Psychology 27 

use when once arranged. We must also have science 
on the earth plane to deliver the facts (or in other 
words various stations of reception. Truths are being 
grasped from the Spirit side of life daily and hourly, 
and this inter sphere communication is the greatest 
of all the scientific discoveries vouchsafed to the 
Earth's inhabitants. Of the different phases of medi- 
umship, let me instruct every one, the scientific planes 
are the same as a collegiate course. To get at truth, 
we must eradicate all erroneous impressions to prepare 
a proper soil for truth to grow. 

There are primary phases of mediumship and then 
they gradually unfold in strick law into more complex 
forms, etc. This is one of the grandest things to give 
to man each and every phase must be handled scien- 
tifically, or we get no result. These are the sciences 
of psychology which are so very intricate and complex, 
yet so valuable to man. As man evolves on the Earth 
Plane so it is with the Spirit Plane. It requires both 
planes the physical and the Spiritual to get the oper- 
ation of the principles. There are men now on the 
Earth Plane tabulating various phenomena endeavor- 
ing to reduce the various manifestations to a scientific 
basis and let me tell you all there will be ere long 
scientific demonstrations handed to man the grandest 
ever yet given to him. 

Yours truly, 

W. T. STEAD. 



TUchire 5to* 6 

Science of Astrology 



Dr. S. Toman through W. B. Murphy, Medium, 

The sixth series of the communications will be en- 
titled "The Science of Astrology." 

The science of astrology is also one of the deepest 
that can be obtained from the Spiritual Sciences. The 
relationship of the Spiritual astrological science to the 
scientific researches upon the material plane of life. 
The great astrological system is so great that it is very 
difficult to explain on account of doubt. To give only 
an ordinary conception it requires so large a scope that 
very few, even the most intellectual, are able to grasp 
it — or even at most have only a very small conception 
of its immensities and glories. Hence you see it is not 
easily made plain to the inhabitants of the Earth 
Plane. 

In the first place, the cycles and orbs in the ethereal 
dome of which the sun, moon, and millions upon mil- 
lions of stars that the telescope reveals to the material 
eye, is very small compared with the wonderful beauty 
and magnitude of the orbs that roll in immensity and 



Science of Astrology 29 

are viewed by the Spirit eye. It is so grand and sub- 
lime that material man in his highest development 
cannot comprehend it. There are eight different kinds 
of suns in the astral world, and millions of spheres of 
great planets— and there are many so beautiful that it 
simply baffles description the grandure they display. 
These planets have interplanetary communication and 
visit each other. 

The focus of astrological science is the place where 
all spirit forces meet each other. The Spirit of Fact, 
the Spirit of Perception. Material Fact, Perception of 
Truth, and Home Fact, of which all partake of to an 
absolute certainty. There is a Great Central Sun, of 
which the great American seer, Andrew Jackson Davis, 
had a preconception of. This Great Central Sun has 
fourteen orbs, fourteen suns and fourteen moons and 
many lesser ones in this great system of grandure, of 
which it is utterly impossible to give you but the faint- 
est idea. We have access to this great focus of forces 
to get our spiritual illumination. We are gradually 
unfolded in love and wisdom by the Great Central 
Sun the same as the petals of the flower are unfolded 
by the genial influence of the material sun. There we 
gather spiritual forces to send out to the people in 
general. You, Dr. S. Toman, can see how difficult it is 
to make these Spiritual truths digestable to man. We 
w r ant to reciprocally assist those upon the Earth Plane 
to perceive the grandure of the Spiritual that they 
may be able to comprehend that it is necessary for 



30 Lectures of the Spirit of W. T. Stead 

them to send forth good thoughts and be able to over- 
come all evils by positive illumination and live up to 
the requirements of Divine Law. Then they will be 
able to travel from sphere to sphere, and orb to orb, 
and aid in the advancement of the material. For we 
must take all along to raise ourselves. We must give 
good thoughts to others — by so doing all receive im- 
petus. We are all linked together into one solid unit. 
Those who have unfolded their inherent principles are 
able by conforming to the laws of the Spirit to travel 
al through the astral fields of infinity. I would further 
remark that Andrew Jackson Davis, Robert G. In- 
gersoll, and Thomas Payne assist in giving this lecture. 
The astrological researches on the material plane are 
very insignificant compared to the science of Spiritual 
astrology. 

The Great Sun from which we receive stimulations 
in love and wisdom, ever expands and sublimates our 
Spiritual nature. 

The Great Brain and Heart is what religionists call 
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 

Not a literal God — no, no. This grand sign of as- 
trological fire is surrounded by all orbs and planets, 
and all to the outer-most fields of infinitude receive its 
wonderful energies. The science of astrology simply 
shows that all stars and orbs, including the Great 
Central Sun, are interlaced by magnetic affinities, that 
they all cooperate and have reciprocal relationships, 



Science of Astrology 31 

and each acts in sympathy with all the stars in the 
fields of immensity. That all error retards progress 
to a certain extent in the great unit. But that they all 
also contribute to the elimination of error. Hence we 
should send forth good thoughts to all parts of the 
universe. By so doing we will aid in the preservation 
of the divine harmonies of the Great Whole — the 
normal physiology of the Universe. 

Yours truly, 

W. T. STEAD. 



Xecture 5to* 7 



Evolution 



To Dr. S. Toman, through W. B. Murphy, medium, 16 

Barnet Street. 

The subject of this lecture will be entitled "Evolu- 
tion." The evolutionary forces start from Spiritual 
principles evolved from whole solar universes. The 
principles of evolution also require an enlightened 
mind to form any conception of their wonders — both 
in the material and Spiritual workings. Material evo- 
lution must come from unit forces infinitesimaly 
small. They have inherent power to gradually attract 
about them similar forces only a shade higher, thereby 
increasing their size. 

The combination of similar atoms make a whole 
molecular unit, in mineral and vegetable. These evolve 
up still finer and finally merge into the animal unit. 
They in turn, still keep on by the great law of pro- 
gression evolving higher and higher until they reach a 
sphere wherein all universal, material and spiritual 
forces focus in the grand ultimate man by the same 
progressive principles. He, man, is the highest or- 
ganization in the universe. And then the time to 
evolve a perfect harmonial man on the material plane 



Evolution 33 

of life will require ages upon ages. Animal matter 
will continue to progress until the evolution of the 
material man will be complete. And man on earth will 
then be a beautiful harmonial character. The brain 
will develop in symmetry and proportion until he will 
be an all-around beauty, a god. 

The evolution on the Spirit side of life is in strict 
accord with the evolution on the Earth Plane — all are 
as one solid unit growing more refined. That is, those 
in advance keep on getting finer and finer. The top 
grows as well as the branches. They keep on pro- 
gressing through higher spheres. It is one of the 
psychological truths that all Spirits conform to. 

There are five different stages of evolution, of which 
we go higher up from one stage to another. There 
are four on the material and five on the Spiritual; 
childhood, youth, manhood, and old age. Then they 
start on the fifth, which is the first stage on the Spir- 
itual plane. Spirits, who have evolved up into those 
higher and enlightened spheres with their banners 
flying, are now sending back peace on earth and good 
will to man, aiding and assisting him up the steps or 
stages of evolution. They are handing to man prin- 
ciples that otherwise he could not have enjoyed for 
ages of time yet to come. The whole astral world con- 
tributes to the evolution of man. 

The stellar world and all men grow and unfold to- 
gether, making one grand whole. So evolution is con- 



34 Lectures of the Spirit of W. T. Stead 

tinually going on both in the natural and Spiritual 
- — due to the influx of the principles of wisdom and 
love, reason and liberty. 

Primary from the Great Central Sun, which is both 
material and Spiritual, and secondly from the evolved 
Spiritual intelligences, all men and even Deity mu- 
tually reciprocate with each other. 

My ideas as given above are the absolute truth. 

Yours truly, 

W. T. STEAD. 



TCecture 3to* S 



Psycholization of Man 



The eighth of the series of lecture will treat of the 
"Psycholization of Man." 

The psycholization of man indicates a higher force 
than has ever been written of before. The forces of 
these psychological principles tend to fit man for a 
higher allotment than was ever given to him, I mean 
the Spirit sense of the force. Men are, to a certain 
extent, hypnotized by Spiritual forces in general more 
so than they are aware. Nature hypnotizes us all 
and evolved intelligences aid in the work of unfolding 
him through the action of these Spiritual forces. 
These Spiritual forces may be taught to others. They 
are great factors in his development and give him 
force and knowledge. Many men are so psychologized 
by this force being operated upon them that they do 
not realize what power does these things — for the 
force is so sublimated that it is inperceptible. The 
whole world psychologizes man to a certain extent — 
and Spirits who know how to handle this subtile prin- 
ciple also can psychologize his brother man. And this 
truth extends to the Spirit side of life the same as on 
the Earth Plane. It is in other words the power of 
enchantment that one has over another. Hence you 



36 Lectures by the Spirit oe W. T. Stead 

witness great results so and so. We wonder why we 
cannot do so and so. We wonder what is the matter. 
A great amount is due to the manipulation of this 
psychical force from the Spirit side of life — unequal 
densities of the psychical etherium in which Spirits 
reside may warp their judgment. 

These are principles that may be learned by the aid 
of teachers of truth. There may also be several re- 
flections that may sway the perception and many feel 
the enchantment as literal truth, but inner and upward 
judgment will clear away the appearance of truth — or 
psychological mists* — and we perceive from another 
viewpoint more clearly. The truths of phenomena are 
taught in various classes according to their degree of 
unfoldment. Man and all nature reciprocally psycho- 
logize each other. Nature acts upon man, and man in 
return acts upon nature physiologically, psychologi- 
cally, and spiritually. These are great truths. The 
Spirits focalize inherent forces, thereby energizing by 
will upon the forces to such an extent that they are 
able to control persons on the Earth Plane or on the 
Spirit side the same as a leader may influence the 
so-called forces as they have intrinsic power to handle 
the currents by will and hold negatives at wilh The 
grand focalization of the vital electrical forces can be 
so liquidated and so used to centralize the forces so 
that manifestations may be given to man on the ma- 
material side of life. 

Yours truly, 

W. T. STEAD. 



- lecture 3to. 9 



Spirit Molecular Magnetism 



To Dr. S. Toman, through W. B. Murphy, medium. 

Lecture number nine will be entitled "Spirit Mole- 
cular Magnetism/' 

Spirit electro molecular magnetism is composed of 
the centrifugal force atom from the units of Spirit 
force. The material atom is a force whereby the Spirit 
atoms are manifested to make the Spirit. The mole- 
cules of the electric forces are so construed to make 
the electric force. The same in stone or mineral, even 
in a grain of sand, thousands upon thousands of atoms 
unite to make a molecule; and millions upon millions 
of grains are united to make the stone or mineral 
block. Millions upon millions of Spirit atoms mole- 
cules unite to make the soul, and ages upon ages and 
cycles of time are required to form it with its infinite 
possibilities. 

It requires ages of time for the atoms to form a 
molecule of Spirit. What a grand thing it is the cen- 
trifugal force. It requires of the little atoms to form 
a Spirit-molecule. It takes you to the end of time. 



38 Lectures of the Spirit of W. T. Stead 

And to you there is no end of time, but one continual 
ever present. 

The electrical and magnetic forces have been called 
Spiritual — as they have been in action for ages of 
time. The electric forces have electrified the atom in 
one place by focusing the energies on a point there by 
forming the atom, and the molecule is formed by the 
magnetic attraction of other atoms causing them to 
cling together. By this same magnetic force that 
causes atoms to cling together causes, upon a more 
advanced stage, brother to cling to brother to form 
society, or association of human molecules, and the 
grand centrifugal force concentrates to form the Spirit 
body. 

I want to transfer your imagination to a Spirit 
group of which the electric forces have been com- 
pleted, and see how they stand togther as one solid 
social molecule. They stand solidly as one man and 
view the panorama of the heavens, all similarly 
evolved by the great electrical force. They see many 
wonders displayed by this wonderful force simply 
amazing. Thus you see that from the tiny atom to 
the molecule and continually advancing on and on 
until you see the fully developed human form, and 
finally the most beautiful angel face. This great force 
forms the face and body of the Spirit. It gives us 
power to use a trumphet and communicate to Earth's 
inhabitants. It is the vehicle of clairvoyence. It con- 
ducts vibrations to your hearing organ. It is the same 



Spirit Molecular Magnetism 39 

whether to your natural hearing of clair audience. It 
has everything to do with seeing either in Spirit or in 
the material. 

This magnetic force is the all in all of the Spirits' 
agency to produce manifestations on both sides of life. 
It is so attenuated that Spirits cooperate with it by 
will power. It is the most refined and most powerful 
force in the Universe. It forms a molecule associated 
with all atoms of oxygen, and the various gases. 
Spirits can centrifugate this force by induction and 
impress a sensitive in the material. That is why we 
can perform this mode of communication. 

Yours truly, , 

W. T. STEAD. 



"Xecture 5to* 10 



Spirit Levitation 



To Dr. S. Toman, through W. B. Murphy, medium. 

The subject of this lecture will be entitled "Spirit 
Levitation" to which so much research has been given 
to find the cause of ponderous articles resisting the 
law of gravitation and rising up without any percep- 
tible or known power operating upon them. It is 
amazing to scientists to see ponderous articles obeying 
to them, an unknown law. I will say that it is a very 
fine form of magnetism, that is used by Spirit intelli- 
gences. This fine force is generated and centrifugated 
upon an object and it permeates the article, and by 
magnetic attraction by the will power of the Spirit, 
levitation of the article takes place. 

The article is charged with a sufficient amount of 
this magnetism in proportion to its weight. To the 
Spirit sense it is seen to be electro magnetism — the 
same as that generated by the animal kingdom, includ- 
ing the human. It is done then by molecular induction 
by an act of the will of the Spirit. Sometimes this 
power is naturally collected and certain phenomena 
may occur without the aid of Spirit intelligences and 



Spirit Levitation 41 

ponderous bodies may be moved without any visible 
power. The action then is due to two different elec- 
trified forces. A Spirit also may then operate with 
these forces. It is often asked "How a trumpet can 
be raised." Yes or any other thing. In the first 
place, we have a sense of power to raise an article by 
molecular law. 

Psychical Research has pointed to the yet unknown 
law which is as yet beyond the reach of the material 
scientist whereby the levitating manifestations occur. 
The electric power by the Spirit, through the medium, 
is that great power of magnetic force. The levitation 
of a piano, table, or even a feather is all the same, only 
*t requires more voltage in one than the other. The 
same as a man lifting a heavy article, it is necessary 
to apply more molecules of this force than in lifting 
something lighter. Even a house might be moved 
from one place to another by the united force of a 
large number of Spirits centrifugating their powers 
upon it and then using their combined power of levita- 
tion. It is a force millions of times more sublimated 
than our ordinary terrestrial electricity and much 
more powerful, and you can see how much power ao 
small spark of earthly electricity has. Even a moun- 
tain may be moved. It is stated that the Central Pyr- 
amid of Egypt was moved a considerable distance by 
a sufficient number of combined molecules of this 
great force. 

One little molecule, like a grain of powder, does not 



42 Lectures of the Spirit of W. T. Stead 

amount to much, but when millions upon millions are 
combined to act as one — then the power is proportional 
to the number of molecules. That is, the law is the 
same. 

It was Julius Page, long before the Caesars placed a 
record in one of the Pyrimads stating of the moving 
of the Central Pyramid quite a distance by the electric 
power. This levitating force is called the magnetic 
or lifting force. This great levitating force is beauti- 
fully displayed in all the astrological realms, whereby 
all planets and orbs are held in lovely association. 
This same force lifts the trees and grass toward the 
sky, and everything turns to the Great Central Sun, 
wheerin light and force are supreme. And yet many 
will wonder that a little tin trumpet can be lifted. 
The action of the Spirits operating upon this force is 
called modern Spiritualism. It always has been mod- 
ern, only we did not know it. 

Yours truly, 

W. T. STEAD. 



TCecture 3to* U 



Central Sun of All Sun's Spiritual Leviation 



The last lecture was levitation of the material by 
Spirit intelligences. This lecture will be known as 
"Spiritual Levitation of the Great Central Sun." 

It pertains to the inmost portals. It centrifugates 
its forces through all bodies in space propelling them 
forth into the great open fields of space. It also at- 
tracts magnetically all orbs in space with what we 
might term levitating power. These powers, centri- 
fugal and centripetal, act and counter-act upon every 
orb in the Universe — holding all planets and all atoms 
of the whole astrological world in harmonial union, 
each acting in concert with the whole universe, con- 
tinual action and reaction similar to a number of 
balls attached to a number of rubber strings and 
whirled around, being held in the center. They would 
all curve around the center as they could not get away 
from the central point of attraction. So it is with 
all worlds that must revolve around the Great Central 
Sun, and all men should conceive the same fact to 
control themselves — that all of the souls desires may 
have their centrifugating tendencies held at bay or 



44 Lectures by the Spirit of W. T. Stead 

from running wild by the Central Sun within. Action 
and reaction are the same in man as in all nature. 

In the first place we gave levitation on the material 
plane, but this is Spiritual and takes you onward and 
upward. You often wonder what keeps the Sun, Moon, 
and all planets from falling, but they are held by this 
great levitating power derived from the Great Central 
Sun, of all suns which keeps everything in its relative 
position to forever remain so. You are living in one 
constellation. There are many constellations rolling 
in space, all being protected from plunging into the 
depths of infinitude never to return were it not for 
this great levitating force of the Central Sun. Hence 
the Great Central Sun has the most distant sun or 
constellation of suns held in its lovely embrace by this 
great principle of levitation. Hence it follows that no 
Spirit can go out of the bounds of this affectionate 
f orce — which will ever protect it like the planets from 
being lost. Hence no soul can ever be lost in all the 
wide fields of immensity. 

Huge spheres revolve around certain centers, which 
result in the changes of the season. But the whole 
coterie of world systems revolve around the Great 
Central Sun. And all receive light and heat from it. 
This principle of levitation is found in all systems of 
worlds.. 

So action and reaction is in all nature to the re- 
motest orbs in the fields of infinitude. With each and 



Central Sun of All Sun's Spiritual Levitation 45 

every molecule in the Universe, what is apparently 
lost in one molecule is restored by reaction in another. 
Planets are repelled by the centrifugal force and then 
magnetically drawn by the centripetal, or what we call 
levitating, force. 

The Central Sun is the greatest of al powers com- 
bined. "Up" and "down" are only terms to express 
the action of these forces. There is no "down" (as 
we look at it), to the Great Central Sun. Hence it 
cannot fall, but must forever remain the positive, the 
center of all powers of both the centrifugal and cen- 
tripetal forces. All forces, both Spiritual and ma- 
terial, are derived from this Great Central Sun- 
After a Spirit evolves up to the Seventh Sphere he 
does not stop, but goes on higher and higher, and fin- 
ally acts as one of the additional forces of power. A 
Spirit never ceases to progress, for the Spiritual cen- 
trifugal force is rebalanced by the Spiritual levitating 
force. Here action and reaction on the Spirit side are 
again equaled. These evolved Spirits return to the 
Central Sun and bring with them their own inherent 
force and to a certain extent enhance the power of the 
fountain source and contribute to the twirling of 
worlds through space. 

The levitating force is an endless chain that binds 
and holds all worlds and ail people together. It is 
the universal tie that binds world to world and soul 
to soul. Science used to follow the Bible, but now the 



46 Lectures of the Spirit of W. T. Stead 

Bible must follow science. Hence, scientifically speak- 
ing, no soul can ever be lost, for this great Spiritual 
levitating force holds each and every atom in its lovely 

embrace. 

Yours truly, 

W. T. STEAD. 



TCecture 5to* 12 



Conclusion and Review 



Dr. S. Toman, through W. B. Murphy, medium, 16 
Barnet Street, Dayton, 0., U. S. A. 

In concluding this series of lectures, I wish to state 
in a very brief manner a few things relative to the 
previous lectures. From the first lecture to the last, 
I have endeavored to bring out the various conditions 
relating to man, the grand ultimate on the material 
plane and on to higher spheres, from the Allotment of 
Man to his astrological relationships, in as concise 
manner as possible. It is useless to enter into 
minute details of the lectures as they are complete in 
themselves. Everything is true therein, as I have 
examined all of them. The conditions were favorable 
on the Spirit side of life as well as on the material 
side. And I was able to keep myself positive to the 



48 Lectures of the Spirit of W. T. Stead 

forces of the medium and the circle of witnesses. 
Hence I could give the truth as I wanted. These mes- 
sages were all given in the light in the presence of 
not less than six creditable witnesses. 

All of these lectures were given by W. T. Stead 
through W. B. Murphy, the medium, by wireless men- 
tal induction. They were flashed upon the slate plain 
enough for the medium to read them. And Dr. Toman 
acted as a faithful recorder of the messages, which 
were proof read in the seance rooms with the trum- 
pet. These messages were given to the people of the 
Earth Plane for the enlightenment of the whole world. 
The hell fire and damnation theory has been exploded 
long ago by science, nature, and all enlightened souls. 

The old creedal doctrines are fast decaying and man 
is coming into the Spiritual light. The Spirit side of 
life rejoice to see the light shining into the dark cav- 
erns of superstition and ignorance. We have taught 
in all these lectures what glories to expect when the 
mortal puts on the immortal. These truths, coming 
from the Spirit side of life, are certainly the grandest 
of all truth. I have given the various stages of pro- 
gress from the time a soul enters Sirit life on into the 
advanced spheres of love and wisdom. 

Read the lectures often and carefully and you will 
find a balm for your soul. For we come back from the 
shores of the so-called dead and tell you of the dis- 
covered land after death. "From whose bourne no 



Conclusion and Review 49 

traveller returns" we now can say is not true, although 
it was said by the immortal great poet. For we do 
return from that shore. 

The following are the witnesses that bear testimony 
that these lectures were gives in the light and proof 
read in the seance rooms : 

Miss Jennie Boyer, Troy, Ohio. 

William B. Murphy, 16 Barnet Street, Dayton, Ohio. 
Mrs. Elizabeth Murphy, 16 Barnet St., Dayton, Ohio. 
Robert A. Boner, 556 West Fifth St., Dayton, Ohio. 
Samuel Toman, 1839 West Third St., Dayton, Ohio. 
Fred Grundish, 233 N. Williams St., Dayton, Ohio. 
Mary Manning, 233 N. Williams St., Dayton, Ohio. 
Frank Dietrick, 528 East Second St., Dayton, Ohio. 
Frank Flinn, Troy, Ohio. 

Mrs. John Shafer, South Broadway, Dayton, Ohio. 

I will also give a number of intelligences on the 

Spirit side of life to also verify from their individual 

consciousness that the foreging lectures are aboslutely 

true in every detail: 

Andrew Jackson Davis, Thomas Jefferson, 
Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Payne, William 
Denton, Robert Ingersol, Elizabeth Ross, 
Henry Carter, Henry Ward Beecher, Moses 
Hull, Horace Greely, Henry Webbert, Robert 
E. Lee, La Fayette, Robert Burns, George 
Washington, Napoleon Bonaparte, J. R. Fran- 
cis, Queen Victoria, Samuel I. Tilden, Count 



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Tolstay, Bismark, Johnathon Barnes, Henry 
Clay, Fernandinez, Christopher Columbus, 
Cicero, John Q. Adams. 
And now I wish to thank you all for the interest 
each and all of you have taken in securing these lec- 
tures. 

Yours for the cause of truth, 

W. TV STEAD. 



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